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Code of Sweetwater
Title 9 Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 5 Massage Parlors And Technicians
Title 9 Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 5 Massage Parlors And Technicians
Sweetwater
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 5 : Massage Parlors And Technicians
9-520 : Unlawful acts.
- It shall be unlawful for any person in a massage parlor to place his or her hand or hands upon or to touch with any part of his or her body, or to fondle in any manner, or to massage, a sexual or genital part of any other person.
- It shall be unlawful for any person in a massage parlor to expose his or her sexual or genital parts, or any portion thereof, to any other person of the opposite sex.
- It shall be unlawful for any person while in the presence of any other person of the opposite sex in a massage parlor to fail to conceal with a fully opaque covering the sexual or genital parts of his or her body.
- It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating or managing a parlor knowingly to cause, allow or permit in or about such massage parlor any agent, employee, or any other person under his control or supervision to perform such acts prohibited in this chapter.
- Sexual or genital parts shall include the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, or perineum of any person, or the vulva or breast of a female.
- Every person owning, operating or managing a massage parlor shall post a copy of this chapter in a conspicuous place in the massage parlor so that it may be readily seen by persons entering the premises.
- It shall be unlawful for any massage parlor to provide massage services at any time between the hours of 9:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M. and on Sundays; however, it shall be lawful for such establishments to remain open for the transaction of other lawful business.
- The administering of massage shall not be conducted in private rooms or areas, but shall be conducted in separate general areas for males and females, or if the same general area is used by both male and female customers, then different times for such separate use shall be designated and posted.
- It shall be unlawful for any person in a massage parlor to administer a massage to a person of the opposite sex.
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland